Who's Will?

If you're like me, you read George today & came away with something to chew on. I know that the earth groans w/the birth pains of the new creation to come, but some suppose to know more than others. Some would say that this or that is judgment or merely an allowed act or whatever. Times & things are often not that simplistic. I know that all things pass through the hands of providence, but that passing isn't necessarily what we think.

Will talks of a new text that deals w/quakes & the study of plate tectonics that revolutionized geology some 40yrs ago. The latest in american disaster seems to leave easy answers to the why problem when we see N.O.,our modern day Sodom, & the gamblin' gulfcoast slammed from Katrina, but they don't come so easy at other times. Other times take the form such as found in this article about the great quake in 'Frisco in '06...


After Earth's heavings subside, they reverberate in people's minds. San Francisco's 1906 disaster prompted the explosive growth of a Pentecostal movement based in Los Angeles, a movement then embryonic but now mighty. Yet when A.P. Hotaling's whiskey warehouse survived San Francisco's post-quake inferno, a wit wondered:

"If, as some say,
God spanked the town
For being over frisky,
Why did He burn the churches down
And save Hotaling's whiskey?"

Good question.